Oh, The Places You’llGo

Taking students places you never thought you could

By Mike Bayba, Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus BOCESmbayba@e2ccb.org

Agenda• Introduction

• Teaching via DL

• Electronic Field Trips

• Special programming opportunities

• Creative uses of Interactive Video

• Co-teaching/mentoring

• Locating videoconferencing opportunities

Distance Learning – what is it and what can you do with it?

What is Distance Learning?– Online Learning – Asynchronous Learning

ANY TIME ANY WHERE learning– Interactive Video – Synchronous Learning

REAL TIME FACE TO FACE learning• Distance Learning Classroom

• Portable Videoconferencing devices

– Blended learning – a combination of both

BOCES Role – We focus on Interactive Video

• Recruiting – Mike Bayba and district staff

• Training – Mike, Brian Straight and Chris Mason

• Technical Support – Brian, Chris and Mike

• Material Support – Melissa Wilson, Rose Snyder

• Administrative Support – Barb Siemaszko and Mike, and district staff

• Scheduling – Rose, Chris, Mike and Brian

Teaching via Distance Learning

• What does that mean?– Connecting to other schools to teach your course

to your students as well as students from other districts

– Meeting new students, administrators, guidance counselors and aides

– Challenging yourself to teach on television (could mean a wardrobe upgrade!!!)

– If you are interested, see Robin Kayner

• Buffalo Zoo 72.43.196.130

• The Paley Center for Media (formerly the Museum of TV and Radio)

• The Farmers’ Museum• NASA• Philadelphia Museum of Art• COSI (Center of Science and Industry)

• Baseball Hall of Fame… and many others

Electronic Field Trips: Where can Videoconferencing take you?

Special Events Programming

Past presentations:Milkweed author Jerry Spinelli

Lois Lowery, Number the Stars author

Future possibilities:Gail Jarrow, author of Robert H. Jackson biography

Jonathan Mooney presentation from Chautauqua Lake

Career Awareness workshops from Genesee CC

College CollaborationsThe Michelangelo Project

Pre-service Teacher students being able to observe a REAL classroom live, then debriefing with the REAL Teacher about the lesson and all the accompanying stuff that happens every day in the REAL classroom.

You can be a part of training a new generation of classroom teachers!

Creative ways to use your Polycom

Prospective employee interviews

Teacher support meetings (i.e.inter-district department mtgs.)

Legislative/Lobbyist meetings (Chautauqua Co. School Boards)

College Collaboration (Michelangelo Project, ask the expert, student teacher observations)

Creative ways to use your Polycom

Satellite Teleconference downlinks (i.e. SED, Colonial Williamsburg)

Guest Speakers/PerformersElectronic Field Trips (NASA, Ward Melville Heritage Organization)

Classroom to Classroom collaborations

Taylor J. Putney

• Reactive Teaching

• Proactive Teaching

Technology

• SMARTBoard

• Polycom

Skepticism

• Square Peg…Round Hole?

• Are we doing this just to do it?

Two Main Uses

• 1) Field Trips

• 2) Collaboration

Field Trips• Buffalo Zoo

Field Trips• Metropolitan Museum of Art

Collaboration

• Observation of Falconer and Panama– Who teaches what?– Who benefits?

• Students

• Teachers

– How does the learning gap shrink?• In an interesting way…

Moving Forward

• Collaborations with– Falconer– Panama

How do I find these things?

Your district should work with your BOCES DL COORDINATOR to coordinate dates/times and funding

http://www.vccontentproviders.org/searchprogram.php

http://www.cilc.org/c/education/content_provider_programs.aspx